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Compared to other Eurex products (e.g. eurostoxx50 or dax future) is the most unpredictable....intraday. You need a casino-strategy :p

IB may indeed offer tight spreads, but if you are trading small, commissions + interest charges (if you keep overnight) are expensive! (own experience) Calculate the costs of your trading style/size before commiting to IB. You may be much better off with Oanda. If you are not skalping...

Didn't mean to offend you honey.... what's your real problem? He asked for an advice in a public forum, anyone can reply with his/hers opinion, right? Whatever... I am off.

That's not a life :D

He said that he wants to daytrade. WSJ is going to give you a bias (bad for daytrading) you don't need. (plus you are gonna save $100 a year :)

What happens intraday has nothing to do with the wsj. Don't subscribe.

Slippage isn't really my concern. From what I see in the orderbook + executions, seems like the trading pattern has changed a lot from a year ago... I am still capable to squeeze 10-15 pts daily with a max of 3 trades, however one of my good old tactics based on volume patterns...

right now (peak time supposedly), I see a couple of hundred contracts at bid and ask. More than a year ago, this use to happen only after the cash market was closed... How long have you been trading it?

First of all, are there any ESTX50 traders here? I traded (position & daytrading) the ESTX50 futures for around a year in the past with a modest success. However, I moved to other contracts/markets due to the long & boring intraday tight ranges. I have picked it up again recently because of...

Try this trade with a smaller size, and your credit can easily turn into debit.

The worst is trade #4: (-100k * (4.551% + 1.5%) + 0% * some_millions_Yen ) * 2/360 = -33.62 USD (So, if you hold for a year, that's 6051 USD in interest charges!) Considering that you only need 2000 USD margin to open such a position, the interest charges of 33USD are 1.65% of your...

Check: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/interestMethods.php?ib_entity=llc It shouldn't take you more than cooking an egg.... :D Why don't you just do the trades and then wait for your monthly haircut....errr...statement?

The process is understood. It is just that your eggs are golden (expensive). To put it simply, your spreads are similar to Oanda, BUT your costs of interest + commissions are HUGE. Give us one good reason why anyone wants to trade forex at IB. Save us the ECN argument.... it is disputable.

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hey! stop harrasing him. He is buying beers tonight....

Moreover, some losers are losers because of commissions and spread... Especially in the short timeframes.

We should invited mr. Williams for a round or two...

Just got fired...I heard. Was the same guy that didn't want to buy back his short GOOG puts.

who is buying beers tonight? :D

Again.... it's called "theft" :D I guess the public was long puts. What happened to the prices of out-of-the-money calls? Any of you guys was short calls?